The “Active Shooter Preparedness” research was conducted in July, 2016. A total of 888 organizations were surveyed about their safety plans and ability to manage an active shooter situation. The goal of this research was to gain insight into the security challenges facing tod [ ... ]

Active Shooters and the Evolving Threat EnvironmentBy Andrew Woods
This opinion piece conveys the perspective of a UK-based author on the current state of security and terrorism issues across the globe. The piece conveys the perspective of a [ ... ]

The Importance of Design Teams in Creating a Targeted Cyber Breach Exercise
By Regina Phelps
Businesses and organizations defend against unending attempts to steal their computer data or damage their systems. Few, however, have serious plans f [ ... ]

Supply Chain Risk
By Lyndon Bird
The exact nature of Organizational Resilience and how it differs from traditional Business Continuity has generated much heated debate and very few definite conclusions over the past five years. One concept mos [ ... ]

Dumb Crisis Comments
By James Lukaszewski
Once a crisis occurs, the bloviating begins, mostly by PR people. Most of these uninformed comments leave the erroneous impression that if you do maybe three things right, quickly; the problem is over [ ... ]

Peter Power considers how recent attacks have altered views on terrorism and considers the role that BCM can play in countering the threat to life it poses
In the closing months of 2015, two particular acts of terror in different western countries had an important effect on [ ... ]

The following is an excerpt from the book Resilient by Design by Joseph Fiksel: from Chapter 1, “Embracing Change”
What is resilience?
As managers grapple with the challenges of climate change and volatility in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying incr [ ... ]

Designing a governance structure and describing its intended performance in the form of program documentation is the first step to ensure your business continuity program produces repeatable results that align to stakeholder expectations.
According to the Business Continuity [ ... ]